Weather Records on 24 August 2004

979 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 24 August 2004. Highest significance: Leeuwarden_1, NL.

Key Facts for 24 August 2004

On 24 August 2004, 979 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
403 were record highs and 253 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 6 were all-time records, 27 monthly and 946 daily.
Leeuwarden_1 set a daily record precipitation of 51.8 mm (2.0 in) on 24 August 2004.
Across 162 earlier years (1802 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 454 records.

Record Map

979 stations

979 station records on 24 August 2004 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 24 August 2004: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Leeuwarden_1	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	51.8 mm (2.0 in)	78 of 100 (Major)
Hoopeston	United States	Record daily precipitation	102.4 mm (4.0 in)	77 of 100 (Major)
Vajda-Guba	Russia	Record daily precipitation	27.5 mm (1.1 in)	76 of 100 (Major)
Mc Farland	United States	Record daily precipitation	204.5 mm (8.1 in)	65 of 100 (Major)
Stover	United States	Record daily precipitation	94.5 mm (3.7 in)	65 of 100 (Major)
Schellingwoude	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	58.1 mm (2.3 in)	62 of 100 (Major)
Olga 2 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Rustefjelbma	Norway	Record daily precipitation	34.4 mm (1.4 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Snoqualmie Falls	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.3 mm (1.4 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Katanning Comparison	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Vestervig	Denmark	Record daily precipitation	31.4 mm (1.2 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Doberlug-Kirchhain	Germany	Record daily precipitation	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Morgan	United States	Record low maximum temperature	16.1 C (61.0 F)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Karlsruhe	Germany	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Oksoey Fyr	Norway	Record daily precipitation	43.0 mm (1.7 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Lexington 3E	United States	Record daily precipitation	62.7 mm (2.5 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Dzan	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	13.9 C (57.0 F)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Makkaur Fyr	Norway	Record daily precipitation	37.2 mm (1.5 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Ft Hall 1 NNE	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-6.7 C (19.9 F)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Stilwell	United States	Record daily precipitation	100.8 mm (4.0 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Lindenfels-Winterkasten	Germany	Record daily precipitation	51.3 mm (2.0 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Woodanilling	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Lakeside	United States	Record daily precipitation	104.6 mm (4.1 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Rosepine Rsch STN	United States	Record high minimum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Jackson Exp STN	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Inari Ivalo	Finland	Record daily precipitation	36.7 mm (1.4 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Borkum-Suderstrasse	Germany	Record daily precipitation	32.1 mm (1.3 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Ogden Sugar Factory	United States	Record low maximum temperature	19.4 C (66.9 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Ewa Plantation 741	United States	Record low maximum temperature	27.8 C (82.0 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Newport	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Abcoude	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	51.4 mm (2.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Montevideo 1SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	75.2 mm (3.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Louisburg	United States	Record low minimum temperature	6.1 C (43.0 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Lake Yellowstone	United States	Record low maximum temperature	8.3 C (46.9 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Poltava	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	38.8 mm (1.5 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Perry Lake	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.0 mm (2.5 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Old Faithful	United States	Record low maximum temperature	10.6 C (51.1 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Kilauea 1134	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Playa Vicente	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	16.7 C (62.1 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Dokkum	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	39.0 mm (1.5 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Edam	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	69.5 mm (2.7 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Lindesnes Fyr	Norway	Record daily precipitation	39.1 mm (1.5 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Teniente Alejandro Velasco As	Peru	Record low maximum temperature	13.9 C (57.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Manhattan	United States	Record daily precipitation	126.5 mm (5.0 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Grand Meadow	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Dunkirk 19NNE	United States	Record low maximum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Tizi Ouzou	Algeria	Record high maximum temperature	44.4 C (111.9 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Tizi Ouzou	Algeria	Record high minimum temperature	30.2 C (86.4 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Crailsheim-Alexandersreut	Germany	Record daily precipitation	26.8 mm (1.1 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Marysville	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Tallulah	United States	Record daily precipitation	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Hickman	United States	Record daily precipitation	78.7 mm (3.1 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Montello 2NE	United States	Record low maximum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Clear Lake	United States	Record daily precipitation	74.9 mm (2.9 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Brownsville	United States	Record daily precipitation	109.2 mm (4.3 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Crandall Creek	United States	Record low maximum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Rollbach	Germany	Record daily precipitation	29.8 mm (1.2 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Wunstorf	Germany	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Kustanai	Kazakhstan	Record high minimum temperature	19.7 C (67.5 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Ingenio Tamazula	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	12.2 C (54.0 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

979 records

Records set or tied on 24 August 2004 by type: Highest daily maximum 187, Lowest daily maximum 138, Highest daily minimum 216, Lowest daily minimum 115, Heaviest daily rainfall 323.

Records on 24 August 2004 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	187
Lowest daily maximum	138
Highest daily minimum	216
Lowest daily minimum	115
Heaviest daily rainfall	323
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 24 August 2004 by timescale: all-time 6, monthly 27, daily 946.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

706 broken records

Margins by which the 706 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 75.6. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

24 August 2004

Top 20 records on 24 August 2004 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
24 August 2004	Leeuwarden_1, NL	daily rain	51.8 mm (2.0 in)	27.3 mm (1.1 in)	95 years	78 of 100 (Major)
24 August 2004	Hoopeston, US	daily rain	102.4 mm (4.0 in)	62.3 mm (2.5 in)	93 years	77 of 100 (Major)
24 August 2004	Vajda-Guba, RU	daily rain	27.5 mm (1.1 in)	15.9 mm (0.6 in)	106 years	76 of 100 (Major)
24 August 2004	Mc Farland, US	all-time rain	204.5 mm (8.1 in)	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	68 years	65 of 100 (Major)
24 August 2004	Stover, US	daily rain	94.5 mm (3.7 in)	55.1 mm (2.2 in)	78 years	65 of 100 (Major)
24 August 2004	Schellingwoude, NL	daily rain	58.1 mm (2.3 in)	34.9 mm (1.4 in)	51 years	62 of 100 (Major)
24 August 2004	Olga 2 SE, US	daily rain	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	14.5 mm (0.6 in)	77 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
24 August 2004	Rustefjelbma, NO	daily rain	34.4 mm (1.4 in)	23.8 mm (0.9 in)	37 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
24 August 2004	Snoqualmie Falls, US	daily rain	35.3 mm (1.4 in)	10.7 mm (0.4 in)	97 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
24 August 2004	Katanning Comparison, AU	daily rain	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	11.5 mm (0.5 in)	70 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
24 August 2004	Vestervig, DK	daily rain	31.4 mm (1.2 in)	10.6 mm (0.4 in)	95 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
24 August 2004	Doberlug-Kirchhain, DE	daily rain	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	9.9 mm (0.39 in)	108 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
24 August 2004	Morgan, US	daily low max	16.1 C (61.0 F)	4.5 C (8.1 F)	98 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
24 August 2004	Karlsruhe, DE	daily rain	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	8.7 mm (0.34 in)	124 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
24 August 2004	Oksoey Fyr, NO	daily rain	43.0 mm (1.7 in)	12.0 mm (0.5 in)	98 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
24 August 2004	Lexington 3E, US	daily rain	62.7 mm (2.5 in)	18.5 mm (0.7 in)	108 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
24 August 2004	Dzan, MX	daily low min	13.9 C (57.0 F)	5.0 C (9.0 F)	34 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
24 August 2004	Makkaur Fyr, NO	daily rain	37.2 mm (1.5 in)	26.0 mm (1.0 in)	16 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
24 August 2004	Ft Hall 1 NNE, US	monthly low min	-6.7 C (19.9 F)	2.8 C (5.0 F)	79 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
24 August 2004	Stilwell, US	daily rain	100.8 mm (4.0 in)	72.4 mm (2.9 in)	11 years	49 of 100 (Notable)

Significance is a score from 0 to 100 combining margin, the age of the old record and the length of the station's record. How it is computed.

The Same Date in Other Years

1802 to 2004

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1802 to 2004. 2004 had 979 records.

Counts for years before the ledger starts come from the same station rules.

Records on 08-24 in each year
Year	Records
1802	1
1807	1
1816	1
1817	2
1818	1
1824	1
1836	1
1838	1
1839	1
1845	1
1848	1
1853	1
1855	2
1859	1
1864	1
1869	1
1870	1
1876	1
1877	1
1878	2
1879	1
1880	2
1881	1
1882	1
1885	3
1886	2
1889	3
1890	2
1891	5
1892	4
1893	2
1894	2
1895	5
1897	1
1898	5
1899	7
1900	9
1901	6
1902	6
1903	13
1904	8
1905	10
1906	22
1907	20
1908	18
1909	36
1910	22
1911	41
1912	37
1913	17
1914	24
1915	182
1916	33
1917	51
1918	79
1919	66
1920	568
1921	52
1922	98
1923	167
1924	153
1925	177
1926	133
1927	338
1928	288
1929	250
1930	240
1931	312
1932	218
1933	305
1934	617
1935	305
1936	937
1937	390
1938	483
1939	271
1940	706
1941	263
1942	549
1943	496
1944	556
1945	404
1946	425
1947	821
1948	794
1949	260
1950	378
1951	459
1952	528
1953	479
1954	631
1955	426
1956	364
1957	686
1958	547
1959	555
1960	549
1961	502
1962	413
1963	505
1964	670
1965	461
1966	707
1967	536
1968	1,039
1969	734
1970	622
1971	586
1972	587
1973	572
1974	481
1975	722
1976	493
1977	842
1978	588
1979	475
1980	669
1981	579
1982	932
1983	915
1984	600
1985	892
1986	726
1987	1,213
1988	1,093
1989	944
1990	654
1991	599
1992	1,724
1993	987
1994	618
1995	1,111
1996	1,275
1997	1,872
1998	1,113
1999	905
2000	830
2001	872
2002	1,114
2003	1,848
2004	979
2005	718
2006	859
2007	1,530
2008	954
2009	1,085
2010	1,278
2011	1,479
2012	647
2013	395
2014	832
2015	886
2016	906
2017	398
2018	442
2019	416
2020	1,055
2021	788
2022	795
2023	1,437
2024	1,338
2025	1,084
2026	618

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Sources: Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Climatology Network Daily (GHCN-Daily). Records are computed by World Extreme Weather Monitor and are not official NOAA products. (US Government open data (NOAA NCEI)) Made with Natural Earth. Public domain map data. Borders are Natural Earth's de facto depiction. Data as of 2026-10-17 (17 October 2026). Records are computed by this site and are not official.

Data as of 2026-10-16. Last revised 16 October 2026 (2026-10-16).

Margin	Records
0 to 10	590
10 to 20	74
20 to 30	19
30 to 40	14
40 to 50	4
50 to 60	1
60 to 70	2
70 to 80	2